Responsibilities of school governors are to ensure the curriculum is balanced and broadly based, setting targets for pupil achievements, managing the schools finances, reviewing staff performance and pay as well as appointing staff. The size of the governing body ranges from minimum of 9 to a maximum of 20 schools. There are categories of governors including parent governors who are elected by other parents although the governing body can appoint if sufficient parents stand. Staff governors the head teacher is a member by virtue of their office. Both teaching and support staff are eligible for staff governorship and are elected by the school staff, volunteers at the school are ineligible. Local education authority governors are appointed by the local authority. Community governors are appointed by the governing body to represent community interests. Community governors can be people who live or work in the community served by the school. Foundation and partnership governors are appointed by schools founding body, church or other...

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Governors
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• Help shape the school’s future direction
• Monitor and review the performance of the school
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with special needs
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...Worksheet 2
2.1 Describeroles and responsibilities of schoolgovernors, seniormanagementteam, and otherstatutoryroles (e.g. SENCO), teachers, supportstaff
| Roles | Responsibilities |
Schoolgovernors | The schoolgovernors must appoint a chair and a vice-chair and may wish to make a number of other specific appointments to lead on to certain aspects of the school. There are many different types of governors such as parent governors, staffgovernors, community governors, authority governors, foundation governors, partnership governors and sponsor governors which all play a part in making schools successful. | The school governor’s responsibilities are to set targets for pupil achievements, managing the school finances, reviewing staff performance and pay, appointing staff and making sure the curriculum is balanced and broadly based. |
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Head teacher
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2.1 Schoolgovernors.
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finance in school;
setting the aims and objectives of the school;
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look after the educational strategies;
agree the budget;
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Head Teacher :
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responsible for the staff and pupils;
responsible to the Governing Body;
leads the staffteam;
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4 .3...

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